Maryland Poultry Swap and Farmers Market JUNE 16th 2012 SHARPSBURG, MD 8-2pm **SHOW CLINIC**

The Maryland Poultry Swap and Farmer's Market

will be held on Sat. June 16th from 8-2pm at

Green Hill Farm

5329 Mondell Rd.

Sharpsburg, MD. 21782

RAIN OR SHINE

Our website: http://www.mdpoultryswap.blogspot.com

Along with a huge sales area, we'll have a Show Clinic designed to teach newbies the ropes of poultry exhibition in a relaxed atmosphere.  There will also be a Coop Tour featuring poultry housing designed and built by area craftsmen.  Bring the entire family.  The volunteer fire dept. will be here running the concession stand.  All proceeds go to support the Sharpsburg Heritage Festival in September.  There will be pony rides and a moon bounce for the kiddies and plenty to see and do.  Camping is free.  Come the day before to avoid that big drive early in the morning.  

THE LIST -an ongoing compilation of stuff we got 

laying boxes

jams/jellies

horse tack

barnwood birdhouses and flower boxes

bantam cochins

white homing pigeons 

olive eggers 

black rosecombs

nesting boxes

COOPS, COOPS and MORE COOPS (large and small)

woodworking crafts like tool boxes, vintage look cupboards, and end tables (beautiful, high quality stuff for reasonable prices) 

bat houses and planters

ladybug houses, butterfly houses, bird houses

silkies

serama

rabbits

rabbit hutches

call ducklings ( chocolate ,buff/khaki mixes and pastel/chocolate mixes.
trio of sq khaki call ducks 1 yr olds 2011 hatches they are laying.
buff brahma quad (1 cockerel and 4 pullets) hatched this spring.
1 white pure am chick 

chicks & started~

SLW

Lav AMs.

BLRW

Blue Jersey Giants(Blue/Black/Splash)

Olive Eggers

Easter Eggers

SQ Black Javas

Auburn Javas

blue laced red wyandotte hens 

brahmas

mixed layers of huge eggs at point of lay

brahmas (lights and darks)

farm fresh eggs

heritage breed turkeys (bourbon reds, royal palms and bronze)

goat soap and lotion

artisan goat cheese from Obergood http://obergood.com/

Wheaten/Blue Wheaten ameraucanas

silkied fainting goats

blue marans

black copper marans

peafowl (yearlings and chicks in lots of fun colors)

black mottled bantam cochins 

exhibition quality buff laced polish

breeder quality tolbunt polish

white crested black polish juveniles

artwork (hand painted signs)

vegetable and flower plants

homemade glycerin soaps

alpine milking goats

call ducks (lots of neat colors like chocolate, buff and fawn)

red and golden pheasants

guineas

splash and blue silkies

blue polish 

white mallards

moscovies

more call ducks in many different colors

game birds - chukar, bob white and ringneck pheasant -A $10 Game bird husbandry permit must be obtained within 48 hours of purchasing these wild typed birds!!

Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets - 12wks. old.

2 - Blue Laced Red Splash pullets.

2 or more Buff Orpington/ Wyandotte chicks - 4 wks. old -- and these babies will lay huge eggs. They don't even fit in a egg carton !

Buff Orpington chicks

beautiful hanging baskets

silver laced brahmas

buff laced brahmas  -both very rare

birchen moderns

sebastopol goslings

sumatra - exhibition quality lines

baked sale

jams and jellies

fresh herbs

rhode island red bantams

trio of partridge rock bantams

two pair of blue cochin bantams

trio of japanese bantams

old english game bantams

silver pencil rock bantams

trio of LF blue cornish

LF rhode island red

buff orpingtons

silver laced wyandottes

black australorps

black and red sexlinks

1 BQ/SQ partridge silkie pair... November 2011 hatch
Partridge and Blue Partridge silkie youngsters 
2 BQ Black rosecomb pairs (have been in the breeding pens so they aren't in condition)
1 BQ Blue silkie cockerel
A quad of largefowl buff orpingtons (2 Hens, 1 cock, 1 pullet/hen hens have amzing show records such as 2010 Jr Best in Show at Frederick, MD/ also many Jr Class Champion titles)... Trio is 2 years old and pullet is 2011 hatch
Largefowl Silver laced wyndotte hen and white leghorn hen... 2 years old and still lay
2 Largefowl Blue Cochin Youngsters (one pullet and one cockerel)

3 Largefowl Black Cochin Youngsters (one pullet and two cockerels)
2 Largefowl cubalaya cockerels (black breasted red and a blue red)
5+ Largefowl Barred Rock Cockerels
licensed massage therapist will be setting up... farmer's need relaxation too!!

holland lops, mini rex, n. dwarf, new zealand, jersey wooly, lion head, 

along with rabbit cages, hutches, play yards brooders,

veggie and flower plants 

homemade cookies, baked bread and fresh garden veggies

silkies and americanas

leghorns

white rocks and mix breeeds

 3 Lav Orp pullets (10 months old)

 - 1 black Mottled bantam Cochin rooster

- 1 calico bantam Cochin rooster

- 1 chocolate bantam Orp cockerel (4 months old) - I may bring 2, but not sure yet.

- 1 pair of blue LF Cochins 

barred rocks, easter eggers,  blue laced wyandottes 

silver laced wyandottes, white rocks, lavender d'uccles

lady amhurst pheasants, peafowl

LOTS of bourbon red turkey poults

seramas, blue swedish ducks 

dominiques

Show Quality pairs/trios/flocks for the Silent Auction (all proceeds benefit the MSPFA)

Blue Jersey Giants (splash roo over black hens)

chocolate and pastel x chocolate call ducklings

BBQ chicken and other goodies - thanks to the Sharpsburg Vol. Fire Dept. and friends

**if you see the same item twice, that's because multiple vendors are bringing the same thing**

Vendors:  Show/Fair rules apply.  Please refer to the website for more information on rules and regs regarding the sale of live animals.  There will be a testing clinic at GHF the weekend before which is free to Maryland residents.  Vendors will be charged a $10 fee to setup.  This fee helps to go toward advertising/porto potties/childrens activities and other expenses.

Here's the link to our flyer.   http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af356/msbear33/mpswap2012.jpg

Give us a hand by posting it in your local feed store.  It looks fantastic on photo paper but can still be printed as a "fast draft" to conserve ink.

on it.

Paul Gilroy has replied that he'll judge the Show Clinic.  

We're also going to do lots of fundraising for the MSPFA  The Maryland State Poultry Fanciers Association is needing some funds to help go toward the Show in Frederick this fall and I though a fun way to help would be a Chinese raffle/auction of some sort.  Maybe we can all donate some fun chicken related items or things that would sell like small kitchen appliances, antiques, maybe a quilt that Grammy can make, etc.  ALL proceeds would go straight to the club.  Put your thinking combs on 

Sorry Tammy.  I have a difficult enough time remembering to feed my toddlers (not a joke) there is so much going on in my life right now.   Life is nuts.  I am glad you'll at least be able to stop in and say hi.  Remind me next spring around March (when I begin advertising) and I'll move the date.  

I wanted to show off some pics of the new chicken barn here at Msbearland.  It's to accommodate the cochin craziness I got going on here... meanwhile, I have chicks coming out of my ears and birds crammed together.  Life has been crazy and I hope we'll be able to finish before the swap.  I've got super garden plowed into rows and nothing in it.. We're still building coops for customers and I picked up some side work designing websites for a few small companies and maintaining them as well as two other non-profit websites on my "spare time." I'm also doing farmers markets in VA for a friend of mine who sells goat cheese every Saturday.   Head is spinning....I guess I'll go sling out some PB&J's and get back to work ahhaahahahah